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A MID-VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL YEW WOOD ARMCHAIR in the manner of Charles Bevan, Circa 1860 The p...

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A MID-VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL YEW WOOD ARMCHAIR in the manner of Charles Bevan, Circa 1860 The p...
A MID-VICTORIAN GOTHIC REVIVAL YEW WOOD ARMCHAIR in the manner of Charles Bevan, Circa 1860 The pedimental dentil-molded crestrail surmounted by a crocheted pinnacle above a channelled frieze centered by a trefoil above a leather covered padded back between two blind arcaded uprights, padded arms with volute handrests on sloped supports, above a square padded seat, on four canted square legs centered by quatrefoils and headed by brackets 46 X 26 X 221/2 in. 117 X 66 X 57 cm - $12,000-18,000 Charles Bevan (fl. 1865-82) may have been trained by the Gothic Revival architect and furniture designer J. P. Seddon, whose work certainly influenced his first published design, a davenport in a geometric Reformed Gothic style, in the Building News of 1865. that year Marsh & Jones of leeds supplied the Yorkshire mill-owner Sir Titus Salt with a large group of furniture, including a bedroom suite, and in 1867 with the case of an Erard grand piano (all Leeds, Temple Newsam House) designed by Bevan; described at the time as 'medieval', the pieces are decorated with geometric marquetry ornament. Bevan designed a bookcase for the Manchester firm James Lamb, which was shown in the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1867, and by the following year was also designing for Gillows. At the International Exhibition of 1872 in London, Gillows exhibited two ebonized cabinets (victoria & albert museum) by Bevan decorated with Doulton stoneware plaques. In company with William Burges, William Butterfield, G. E. Street and Bruce J. Talbert, Bevan was described by the Building News as a designer of 'Modern Gothic Furniture', but he also carved and manufactured furniture himself. In 1871 and 1872 designs by Bevan and his son, George Alfred Bevan, were published in the House-Furnisher, and in May 1872 they went into partnership as C. Bevan & Son at 100 High Holborn, London, remaining at this address for the next ten years.